Payroll Team Lead (White & Blue Collar)

Overview

Payroll Team Lead

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Payroll & Compliance Experience

• Deep understanding of payroll computation methodology, including gross-to-net calculations, accruals, provisions, retroactive adjustments, leave salary, EOSB, allowances, and deductions
• Strong knowledge of UAE Labour Law, employment contracts, WPS (SIF), and payroll compliance requirements
• Experience managing complex payroll structures across blue-collar and high-volume white-collar workforce

Commercial & Financial Acumen

• Ability to interpret payroll as a financial model, including cost allocation, payroll provisions, accruals, workforce costing, and P&L improvements
• Strong understanding of payroll's impact on client billing, cost-to-client mapping, recharge models, margin sensitivity, and utilization versus cost
• Proven ability to identify and mitigate payroll, billing, and revenue leakage risks

Analytical & Business Capability

• Ability to interpret client contracts, compensation structures, and commercial agreements to ensure payroll and billing accruals
• Must be capable of validating and challenging payroll system outputs rather than simply processing transactions
• Advanced Excel skills, including reconciliations, variance analysis, pivot tables, lookups, and large dataset management

Qualifications & Experience

• 4–8 years of UAE payroll experience within staffing, outsourcing, EOR/PEO, manpower supply, workforce solutions, or shared services environments.
• Minimum 2 years of team leadership or supervisory experience leading at least 2-3
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• Proven experience managing high-volume payrolls across multiple clients, entities, and workforce categories.
• Not limited to HRMS execution (SAP/Oracle/D365 etc. is secondary)
• Must be able to challenge system outputs, not just process them
• Must understand how payroll decisions impact finance, billing, and compliance simultaneously
• Strong ability to work with Finance, Operations, and Legal teams on payroll design and controls